The project ”YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers” was implemented by 3 organizations from Romania, Spain and Germany. It had a duration of 14 months. The consortium was consisted of ACE-ES Romania, Cesur and bbw gGmbH.Within the current organizational structures and environments, youth organizations find an increasingly difficult to raise funds. Therefore, in this time of social and economic crisis social enterpreneurship could be strongly seen as a viable mechanism for NGOs’ sustainability and also a powerful tool for inspiring, educating and supporting new generations to act as active and responsible citizens. The percentage of NEETs in Romania, in Spain and all over the Europe is very high. The new youth generation – so called ”Millennials – The Generation Y” (Engaged, Optimistic, and Charitable) requires creative and entrepreneurial ways of involvement as active citizens. The European Commission stressed the fact that the youth organisations are one of the main providers of non-formal and informal learning leading to an entrepreneurial mindset and skills. In this regard, it was an urgent need to strengthening the support for youth organisations in providing guidance, mentoring and quality training. But to do so for their beneficiaries the youth NGOs also need trained human resources, work tools, focused action plans and professional volunteers to sustain them. A youth NGO needs to become a “professional actor” capable to attract the best resources, to produce significant changes, to create value through social business/social economy, to include more beneficiaries, to expand the area of intervention and to develop new services and projects.The general aim of the project was to stimulate transnational exchange of good practices and relevant experiences in developing modern and challenging action-based learning contexts for professional people of the youth NGOs (with a special focus on youth workers) based on social enterpreneurship so that they could stimulate development of their organisations and their target groups on economically sustainable basis. The project has focused on 3 specific objectives:O1 – Enhancing the professional development of at least 30 experts of youth NGOs from Romania, Spain and Germany (with a special focus on youth workers) through combined training approach in social entrepreneurship (practical workshops and elearning modules).O2 – Promoting a proactive and innovative non-formal way of learning/working with young volunteers of an entrepreneurial youth NGO called LIVE Laboratory and elaborating a methodology for this Lab.O3 - Strengthening the cooperation between youth organisations and public authorities through a transnational online network in order to foster social entrepreneurship initiatives.Project methodology was a participatory one based on:- creative tools and methods so that activities were implemented with participants rather than for them;- a culture of transnational cooperation and knowledge among different types of participants. There were a variety of activities grouped into 3 components consisting of: practical workshops; collaborative online group; developing 8 e-learning modules to expand social enterpreneurship knowledge and practical experiences of the youth workers/experts from youth NGOs; developing an implementation methodology of LIVE Lab as a new way of working with volunteers for the prosperity of the organization as a whole; setting up a transnational online network of cooperation composed of a large mix of organizations, for learning and acting together in terms of fostering social enterpreneurship within the youth NGOs.The main results were the following:Youth workers and other experts of youth NGOs were getting new know-how, professional skills and awareness on social entrepreneurship so that they could promote and use the take-up of practical entrepreneurial experiences in education, training and youth work. It was promoted LIVE Laboratory - a proactive and innovative non-formal way of learning/working with young volunteers in the spirit of an entrepreneurial youth NGO. A transnational online network was created from different type of organizations in order to foster social entrepreneurship initiatives.The long term benefits of the project: the participants became resource persons and they could support cascading of knowledge in their orgnizations and their local communities; participating organizations transfered each other information, good practices and know-how and fostered a more dynamic and committed environment inside them; the stakeholders contributed to a better understanding and recognition of the role played by youth NGOs, Millenials and social entrepreneurship for a brighter social and economic future.

<< Objectives >>Aim: to support increasing capacity of partner organizations to create inclusive environments based on improvements and new approaches which empower young women with disabilities for civic engagement, participation&community contribution to manifest their full potential. It is supported by specific objectives in 3 directions: to raise practitioners work quality with digital tools to enhance learning environments applicative&inclusive character; to increase awareness of project results<< Implementation >>Project has transversal activities&technical ones in for WPs: WP1 Project Management (2 activities); WP2 - Products&Tools4Practitioners work (5 activities focused on developing of 2 innovative products/piloting&validation); WP3 - Training Activities&Applicative learning contexts (5 activities focused on applicative&inclusive character of learning environments f); WP 4 - Results Sharing (6 actions – awareness, transfer&exploit). All of these lead to the achievement of the project objectives set.<< Results >>Project has tangible results (3 innovative deliverables: Inclusion Support Circles Methodology; Virtual Portfolio; DisABILITIES Civic LAB; 1 transnational training program: ”Building Scenarios” and 3 national sessions (ToT) to transfer know-how to other experts). STRATEGIC RESULT: A solid partnership promoting inclusion&diversity as the most relevant pillar among practitioners to increase the capacity of YWwD and empowers them to lead healthy, engaged, and productive lives in their communities.

The Strategic Partnership for implementing the project “Education in rural entrepreneurship through producing and valorising medicinal and aromatic plants” has brought together the private sector represented by the social enterprise Eco Herbal Romania, as coordinator, NGOs by the Association of Consultants and Experts on Social Economy Romania (ACE-ES RO), researchers from The Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research Germany (GA) and public education institution as Latvijas Lauksaimniecības Universitāte/ Latvia University of Agriculture (LLU). This consortium was the greatest mix of knowledge, background and experience in the project area, also in implementing international Strategic Partnerships through Erasmus+ Programme. In almost two years of its working time, the project managed to complete all the tasks and Intellectual Outputs the partner consortium agreed on in the early stage of application and submission. This Erasmus+ project was set up to provide innovative training materials in rural entrepreneurship through producing and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants. This project has provided innovative training materials as 2 Intellectual Outputs: one manual and one curriculum for rural entrepreneurship through producing and valorising of herbs that are endangered or available only from spontaneous flora. Both Intellectual Outputs registered great success and they have been highly appreciated among academic area. This Intellectual Outputs are used in present and will be used for long term in future as great materials for adult education in 4 public educational institutions from Romania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden. The Manual have been awarded with the third place in the category “Best teaching material” in the LLU’s annual contest regarding best books and teaching materials developed by LLU academic staff. Our Intellectual Outputs have been disseminated through 3 multiplier events, organized in all 3 countries of which consortium partners belong: Romania, Latvia and Germany. These multiplier events have summed up 268 participants, from which 169 were local and 99 foreign participants.The activities were accompanied by five transnational project meetings where the expertise and ideas were exchanged, the observation of work plan and time schedule monitored as well as the next tasks and responsibilities agreed.The Intellectual Outputs have been disseminated to 634 beneficiaries through direct interaction through theoretical and practical training, multiplier and other events and to 2273 contacts, scientists, practitioners, adult educators and other people interested in the subject through indirect interaction.Furthermore, the partnership has achieved a real success with its transversal tasks of Evaluation and the Dissemination of results. Various useful management tools were applied in order to constantly monitor the project progress as well as to evaluate its success, like Project Management Procedure, Quality Management Plan and Risk Management Procedure. Also, all partners have been implemented various dissemination activities in their countries in order to spread and publicize our project’s results. This project and the partner cooperation, the transnational meetings and multiplier events have generated excellent learning opportunities, exchange of good practice and professional experience, including exchanges and trade partnerships between different private entities from different European countries.The Final Report at hand documents all the project´s activities and results as well as evaluates its success. This project has fulfilled the Erasmus+ Programme objectives and is still contributing to the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy for growth, jobs, social equity and inclusion. The project is related to Erasmus+ both horizontal and specific priorities, aims to reach large scale of people, to improve competitiveness and to bring added value at EU/international level.

Inclusive + is a strategic partnership gathering five partners from five different countries trying to enhance low skilled people labour market integration by improving and extending the existent support tools for intermediary professionals. In order to design a targeted path for up-skilling low qualified, they are absolutely necessary appropriate assessment methods. The project has provided inclusive and practical tools to help intermediary professional identify their clients attitudes, skills and competences as a first step for a tailored, more empathic and efficient approach to recruiting and counselling. The project has been focused on creating useful assessment tools for profiling low skilled/low qualified and complementing the intermediary professionals with Coaching Circles Training Methodology (a new method to collaborate, share and cascade acquired skills-set and competences). The project has been developed to answer to the following needs: - Need of low skilled/qualified people to adapt to the changing requirements of the labor market and highly competitive economy.- Need to qualify, update and up-skill their competences that are indispensable to improve their labour market integration as well as increase their productivity and human capital and satisfy their individual education and training needs.- Need to improve low skilled people articulate attitudes, skills and knowledge to improve their skills set.- Need to help them reflect on their skill set and change their perspective towards learning, training and working.- Need to improve the counseling and training methodologies by using new, individualized and emphatic approaches.- Need to improve the skills and competences of professionals dealing with low qualified clients: career advisors, recruiters, etc.help low skilled people articulate attitudes, skills and knowledge to improve. The Inclusive+ project has produced the following outcomes i) Competence Assessment Cards for Low Skilled Adult Workers; ii) Carrer CirclesTM Programme Training for Facilitators; iii) Facilitators Guide.Both, intermediary professionals and low skilled adults have been the direct beneficiaries of this project by participating in the foreseen training activities. Overall, the project have reached more than 79,000 people, among career advisors/guidance professionals/recruiters, low skilled adults, and other stakeholders. 154 of them took also part of the training activities carried in the frame of the Inclusive+ project: 1) Piloting for the use of the competence assessment cards for low skilled adults, 2) CareerCircles Training programme for Intermediary Professionals. The 3 intellectual outputs have been presented in 5 multiplier events organised at the end of the project life cycle. The multiplier events have involved organisations and agencies that deal with unemployed, guidance professionals, adult trainers, and relevant stakeholders at local, regional and national level.

RE-ENGAGE! Gathers 5 partners from 3 countries where young people have been particularly affected by the recession with regard to their job prospects: high unemployment rates, discouraged workers with no or little motivation as result of negative thinking, poor self-awareness and lack of opportunities. This project aims at providing a new chance to young people to experience success through self-development, creative thinking and exploring their possibilities through entrepreneurship. Ultimately, the objective of the project is to empower young people with the necessary skills and mind-set to explore, unlock and exploit their career potential and re-engage with labor market. Re-engage! works with young unemployed people at two levels: First, working on overcoming limiting beliefs that hinder them from taking more proactive approaches and equipping them with motivation and skills needed to enter the labor market. Special focus has been put on personal development, help them cope with personal difficulties and boost confidence and positive thinking; while developing skills and competences - either filling existing gaps or more proactively seeking to acquire skills needed to progress to further employment and work related activities such as work-place behavior, CV elaboration and interview skills. Second, for more proactive young people who would like to explore self-employment, the project has created specific entrepreneurship support- to promote youth entrepreneurship and self-employment of those willing to set up their own business as an alternative route into the labor market. The project has offered face to face training on entrepreneurship to support and prepare creative business ideas, which will be available online to a wide audience. The project has produced 3 open source Intellectual Outputs: 1) Course pack “ Make the Best Out Of Yourself! – boosting confidence and motivation: a two line course on personal and professional development as well as a course designed for young aspiring entrepreneurs who want to explore an entrepreneurial path and overcome some challenges during the first steps of the entrepreneurial adventure,2) EngageHub patform! – A virtual e-learning platform and matrix for talent creation where youth can find the two-abovementioned courses and other useful information on personal development. The platform serves as a hub for exchange of experiences with other young people. 3) The Creative Me Toolbox – Tools especially designed for young people providing tips on how to unlock creativity with interactive examples and exercises. A total of 25 career advisors/trainers/facilitators and 67 young unemployed have been involved in the training activities. Out of this number, more than 50% of the involved young people have been NEETS. The project has organized 3 Conferences with 140 national participants, organized in Spain, Romania and Greece with the aim to disseminate the project results at international level to guarantee the transfer of results and sustainability of the project.